It has nothing to do with being a "religious nutter" (if you knew anything about what pass for my "beliefs" you'd realize that.)
My problem is with the fine-tooth combing of weasel words to determine whether something is or is not potentially slanderous. My issue is with people publishing "reports" that should be editorials because of their biased content. My issue is the media getting away with smear campaigns with the excuse "freedom of the press."
I don't give a damn who is on the offense and who's on the defense -- I believe there should be ethical standards as to the reasonable truth of a claim before it can be published as "news" or a "report". Personal bias and bullshit have no business outside of an *opinion* piece like an editorial.
I do hope they resolve the problem and keep going. It would be such an embarassment to China to have it fail on it's first night out.
You can make all the jokes you want about "Cheap Chinese Crap" you want, but you know as well as I do that when it comes to stuff that isn't intended for the dollar store sale bins, China can make as good a piece of hardware as anyone else. They wouldn't have made it to the moon in the first place if their rocket had been built with toy-maker electronics instead of mil-spec.
Yeah, I've got a suggestion: Jail every idiot who spews unfounded accusations under the guise of "freedom of the press."
An editorial is one thing; you expect opinion from an editorial, not reporting. But in any other case, the law should come down hard on the side of integrity without room for weasel-words.
Fascists are pro-corporate leaderships. The Nazis were busy seizing businesses and corporations from the Jews, so they were most emphatically not "fascists."
The modern United States is far more fascist than the Nazis ever were, complete with rah-rah flag-waving sentimentalism and investing in an overly large military machine that they use to attack people around the globe who don't agree with their "ideals".
All forms of government are good at one thing, though: spin and propaganda. The use of such tactics tells you nothing about their intentions; only their actions can speak to that.
So "You're like a child molestor" is ok, but "You are a fraud" is not?
Weasel words and politicing, and slander in both cases in my books.
The legal system is seriously fucked up if it considers such minor differences to be grounds for letting someone off on making baseless accusations, "freedom of the press" or no. If you can't prove what you're making accusations about, one should be required to legally STFU and have some damned integrity in their writing, not be free to spew whatever bile and vitriol they like and whine "it's just an allegory."
Here's an allegory for the guy who wrote the insults and slams: "You're very much like the slime from between the toes of the Himalayan Sloth."
People protesting over the use of public bus stops for private transportation are not anything even vaguely like people being gassed, decapitated, their assets seized, and being thrown into internment camps. The ravening mobs of placard carriers are not beheading anyone.
It's nothing more than a disingenous attempt to try to pump up the severity of the protests, and in so doing, insults the people who survived the Nazi internment camps.
But it's typical American media: Eyeballs and advertisers over truth and integrity.
But that's just it. He's still in love with his "Amiga". He wants the same thing, but newer. They're no longer made. Such is life.
No one can tell him what to like. It's just post fodder for the iOS and Android fans to scream at each other again.
Realistically, if he's so stuck on a keyboard, he's pretty much stuck with the Blackberry devices, and they don't give him the other features he says he wants. So the author is going to have to make some choices.
Not the public.
The lazy assed "I don't want to do my own research" author.
Ooooh. Modded down by someone who doesn't like being called a "freetard."
Suck it up, baby.
Companies exist to make money and monetize services and data. They're required by law to do so.
Your misunderstanding of what the "free software" contract is doesn't entitle you to do anything other than set up your own equivalent repository as a back-end for the same free software that someone else released. Nobody is stopping you from creating "The Freetard Play Store" and giving away the content and access to it.
I expect the tweaks and changes they've had to make have been or will be posted upstream in due time. Who would want to keep applying patches instead of submitting them to the source projects for integration?
I bought a cheap consumer grade laptop from Lenovo who's only standout quality was a core i7 processor (because I was going to use it primarily as a compute server.) I've had zero problems with it. None. Zip. Zilch.
But I set my laptop bag down gently instead of tossing it on the couch or floor.
I remember that it's a piece of fragile electronics at it's heart, not some mil-spec tank designed to take a.50 calibre bullet and keep running. It's a trade off -- I'd rather have to take care of it than slug around a heavier chassis that might be a little bit more durable.
Just a few days ago, a friend was complaining on Crackbook about how "shitty" Toshiba laptops are. Well, it turns out that her kid had the laptop in her backpack, slipped on the ice, and landed full body weight on the laptop on her back.
There is no machine that will survive such abuse, and I told her that. She doesn't care. She'll "Never buy another Toshiba."
I suspect that 90% of the people griping about Lenovo's quality are in the same boat.
Why do I have this sneaking suspicion it runs in exponential time, varying as the size of the data set...
From what this user is talking about (multiple drives full of images), they may well have reached the point where it is impossible to sort out the dupes without one hell of a heavy hitting cluster to do the comparisons and sorting.
When AOL ruled the roost, they provided their own "internet" along with dial-up access.
People no longer expect a website provider to be providing access to the internet, so that entire business model died.
Facebook, on the other hand, is just one of many web service providers clamouring for attention from the users who already have access to the internet. They're not tied to an AOL-style model that is subsidizing their content through access provisioning.
The biggest thing that could keep Facebook active long past it's relevance is the number of websites which use Facebook credentials for authentication. Personally I always sign up for a local account and refuse to tie my Facebook profile to any other services, but a lot of people don't think that way. They don't mind Facebook knowing about every site they visit and use. Me, I mind.
I never have and never will like the ideas of single-point authentication provisioning. It brings back too many bad memories of the failures of the authentication systems at corporations I've worked for over the years, which left me twiddling my thumbs for hours (or longer) while they fixed problems with a system that shouldn't have been required for me to do my job in the first place.
Given how often Facebook is down or unavailable, there is no way in hell I'm going to trust them as a similar single point of access failure.
But for as long as the masses are willing to put up with those risks, Facebook will have a place, even if they someday are no more than an identity services provider.
I'd love to see these people who try to justify being a thief at least put some skin in the game so when their content is ripped off they'll have a taste of what they're dishing out. A lot of "if I made music I'd let people trade it" happening and not a lot of "I make music and I've released it for free" going on.
Funny. There seem to be thousands of open source projects like mine (MSS Code Factory) where people have done exactly that: put in years of work and released it for free.
Furthermore, while I do torrent movies and music, I've also spent in excess of $60,000 so far in my life on media. There comes a point where you realize it's just an insane amount of money to be spending on entertainment. Particularly as I've watched a whole two movies to the end in the past year, giving up on most after 20 minutes as being an utter waste of time to watch such drivel (and that includes a number of "big name" block busters like the latest "Star Trek" drek.)
Most of the music I do download is music I already own. It's easier to download it than to go rifling through the boxes to find that particular CD. And ripping 5,000+ CDs would just be a royal pain in the anal sphincter. Not to mention requiring an obscene investment in hard drive storage.
Sure I end up getting some albums I never owned and checking them out. But with a collection my size, I don't feel I've "ripped off" the media industry in any size, shape, or form. They've gotten more than their fair share out of me.
I worked it out once. What I've spent on media so far is the equivalent of paying a $100/month "streaming fee" for my entire life, from birth to expected death around 72 years old. And that's just what I spent on physical media -- it doesn't include movie tickets or cable and satellite fees, nor the massive numbers of movies I rented over the years.
Nope. I'm pretty guilt fee about my "theft" nowadays. They've been paid, paid, and paid again over the past 49 years.
The built-in automatic password for a certain banking transaction history system used for the equivalent of "root" access is "MMDD". Four easily predicted digits.
And this software is used by some of the biggest banks in North America -- several of them. It's used to maintain complete seven year transaction histories in compliance with the law and banking regulations.
Worse, there is no audit trail of the account used to access the emergency maintenance account. And you cannot disable the account!
Yeah, but the same people who were ranting about D&D were also claiming Ozzy Osbourne was the devil himself, heavy metal was the end of society, and so on.
Nowadays the descendants of those nutbars blame it all on the gays, the muslims, etc.
There are always whack jobs looking for someone to blame for their own problems.
Which reminds me of a good post I read recently:
Believer: God, the troubles in this world -- it's all because of the gays, isn't it?
God: Yes, yes it is.
Believer: I knew it!
God: You misunderstand. It's the way you treat them.
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Tsk. You don't understand.
It's not a failed product.
It's a failed marketing campaign.
Clearly rebadging the steaming pile of schite is the way to go. :P
It has nothing to do with being a "religious nutter" (if you knew anything about what pass for my "beliefs" you'd realize that.)
My problem is with the fine-tooth combing of weasel words to determine whether something is or is not potentially slanderous. My issue is with people publishing "reports" that should be editorials because of their biased content. My issue is the media getting away with smear campaigns with the excuse "freedom of the press."
I don't give a damn who is on the offense and who's on the defense -- I believe there should be ethical standards as to the reasonable truth of a claim before it can be published as "news" or a "report". Personal bias and bullshit have no business outside of an *opinion* piece like an editorial.
I do hope they resolve the problem and keep going. It would be such an embarassment to China to have it fail on it's first night out.
You can make all the jokes you want about "Cheap Chinese Crap" you want, but you know as well as I do that when it comes to stuff that isn't intended for the dollar store sale bins, China can make as good a piece of hardware as anyone else. They wouldn't have made it to the moon in the first place if their rocket had been built with toy-maker electronics instead of mil-spec.
Yeah, I've got a suggestion: Jail every idiot who spews unfounded accusations under the guise of "freedom of the press."
An editorial is one thing; you expect opinion from an editorial, not reporting. But in any other case, the law should come down hard on the side of integrity without room for weasel-words.
Fascists are pro-corporate leaderships. The Nazis were busy seizing businesses and corporations from the Jews, so they were most emphatically not "fascists."
The modern United States is far more fascist than the Nazis ever were, complete with rah-rah flag-waving sentimentalism and investing in an overly large military machine that they use to attack people around the globe who don't agree with their "ideals".
All forms of government are good at one thing, though: spin and propaganda. The use of such tactics tells you nothing about their intentions; only their actions can speak to that.
So "You're like a child molestor" is ok, but "You are a fraud" is not?
Weasel words and politicing, and slander in both cases in my books.
The legal system is seriously fucked up if it considers such minor differences to be grounds for letting someone off on making baseless accusations, "freedom of the press" or no. If you can't prove what you're making accusations about, one should be required to legally STFU and have some damned integrity in their writing, not be free to spew whatever bile and vitriol they like and whine "it's just an allegory."
Here's an allegory for the guy who wrote the insults and slams: "You're very much like the slime from between the toes of the Himalayan Sloth."
There is no valid comparison to be made.
People protesting over the use of public bus stops for private transportation are not anything even vaguely like people being gassed, decapitated, their assets seized, and being thrown into internment camps. The ravening mobs of placard carriers are not beheading anyone.
It's nothing more than a disingenous attempt to try to pump up the severity of the protests, and in so doing, insults the people who survived the Nazi internment camps.
But it's typical American media: Eyeballs and advertisers over truth and integrity.
Then we can resurrect that sound fragment from an old video game I used to play (I forget the name), which would periodically threaten "I Hunger..."
I can see far more entertainment value in people's phones moaning "I Hunger" from their pockets instead of displaying a low-battery indicator. :D
But that's just it. He's still in love with his "Amiga". He wants the same thing, but newer. They're no longer made. Such is life.
No one can tell him what to like. It's just post fodder for the iOS and Android fans to scream at each other again.
Realistically, if he's so stuck on a keyboard, he's pretty much stuck with the Blackberry devices, and they don't give him the other features he says he wants. So the author is going to have to make some choices.
Not the public.
The lazy assed "I don't want to do my own research" author.
It's okay to call someone a child molester but not a fraud or a thief?
WTF?
I loved my Amiga, too. That doesn't mean I want to go back to those days.
Life has moved on. Time for you to do the same.
Fortunately with that choice of names we can still call their customers "glassholes". :P
This sounds a lot like the "Pizza is a vegetable" nonsense I remember reading about a few years ago.
Compared to the budget spent on the military, NASA's budget is a drop in the bucket. It's hardly responsible for the gutting of other programs.
Nouveau can't even support a 1600x1200x32bit 75Hz refresh monitor. It puked for me on anything more than 1280x1024.
Absolutely useless.
Ooooh. Modded down by someone who doesn't like being called a "freetard."
Suck it up, baby.
Companies exist to make money and monetize services and data. They're required by law to do so.
Your misunderstanding of what the "free software" contract is doesn't entitle you to do anything other than set up your own equivalent repository as a back-end for the same free software that someone else released. Nobody is stopping you from creating "The Freetard Play Store" and giving away the content and access to it.
I expect the tweaks and changes they've had to make have been or will be posted upstream in due time. Who would want to keep applying patches instead of submitting them to the source projects for integration?
Poe's Law. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. There is no telling whether the poster was serious or sarcastic.
I bought a cheap consumer grade laptop from Lenovo who's only standout quality was a core i7 processor (because I was going to use it primarily as a compute server.) I've had zero problems with it. None. Zip. Zilch.
But I set my laptop bag down gently instead of tossing it on the couch or floor.
I remember that it's a piece of fragile electronics at it's heart, not some mil-spec tank designed to take a .50 calibre bullet and keep running. It's a trade off -- I'd rather have to take care of it than slug around a heavier chassis that might be a little bit more durable.
Just a few days ago, a friend was complaining on Crackbook about how "shitty" Toshiba laptops are. Well, it turns out that her kid had the laptop in her backpack, slipped on the ice, and landed full body weight on the laptop on her back.
There is no machine that will survive such abuse, and I told her that. She doesn't care. She'll "Never buy another Toshiba."
I suspect that 90% of the people griping about Lenovo's quality are in the same boat.
Why do I have this sneaking suspicion it runs in exponential time, varying as the size of the data set...
From what this user is talking about (multiple drives full of images), they may well have reached the point where it is impossible to sort out the dupes without one hell of a heavy hitting cluster to do the comparisons and sorting.
When AOL ruled the roost, they provided their own "internet" along with dial-up access.
People no longer expect a website provider to be providing access to the internet, so that entire business model died.
Facebook, on the other hand, is just one of many web service providers clamouring for attention from the users who already have access to the internet. They're not tied to an AOL-style model that is subsidizing their content through access provisioning.
The biggest thing that could keep Facebook active long past it's relevance is the number of websites which use Facebook credentials for authentication. Personally I always sign up for a local account and refuse to tie my Facebook profile to any other services, but a lot of people don't think that way. They don't mind Facebook knowing about every site they visit and use. Me, I mind.
I never have and never will like the ideas of single-point authentication provisioning. It brings back too many bad memories of the failures of the authentication systems at corporations I've worked for over the years, which left me twiddling my thumbs for hours (or longer) while they fixed problems with a system that shouldn't have been required for me to do my job in the first place.
Given how often Facebook is down or unavailable, there is no way in hell I'm going to trust them as a similar single point of access failure.
But for as long as the masses are willing to put up with those risks, Facebook will have a place, even if they someday are no more than an identity services provider.
Open source always allowed for monetization of services and content data.
The only ones surprised by this are the freetards, who think "free software" means "zero cost".
It does not.
Funny. There seem to be thousands of open source projects like mine (MSS Code Factory) where people have done exactly that: put in years of work and released it for free.
Furthermore, while I do torrent movies and music, I've also spent in excess of $60,000 so far in my life on media. There comes a point where you realize it's just an insane amount of money to be spending on entertainment. Particularly as I've watched a whole two movies to the end in the past year, giving up on most after 20 minutes as being an utter waste of time to watch such drivel (and that includes a number of "big name" block busters like the latest "Star Trek" drek.)
Most of the music I do download is music I already own. It's easier to download it than to go rifling through the boxes to find that particular CD. And ripping 5,000+ CDs would just be a royal pain in the anal sphincter. Not to mention requiring an obscene investment in hard drive storage.
Sure I end up getting some albums I never owned and checking them out. But with a collection my size, I don't feel I've "ripped off" the media industry in any size, shape, or form. They've gotten more than their fair share out of me.
I worked it out once. What I've spent on media so far is the equivalent of paying a $100/month "streaming fee" for my entire life, from birth to expected death around 72 years old. And that's just what I spent on physical media -- it doesn't include movie tickets or cable and satellite fees, nor the massive numbers of movies I rented over the years.
Nope. I'm pretty guilt fee about my "theft" nowadays. They've been paid, paid, and paid again over the past 49 years.
The built-in automatic password for a certain banking transaction history system used for the equivalent of "root" access is "MMDD". Four easily predicted digits.
And this software is used by some of the biggest banks in North America -- several of them. It's used to maintain complete seven year transaction histories in compliance with the law and banking regulations.
Worse, there is no audit trail of the account used to access the emergency maintenance account. And you cannot disable the account!
Yeah, but the same people who were ranting about D&D were also claiming Ozzy Osbourne was the devil himself, heavy metal was the end of society, and so on.
Nowadays the descendants of those nutbars blame it all on the gays, the muslims, etc.
There are always whack jobs looking for someone to blame for their own problems.
Which reminds me of a good post I read recently:
Believer: God, the troubles in this world -- it's all because of the gays, isn't it?
God: Yes, yes it is.
Believer: I knew it!
God: You misunderstand. It's the way you treat them.